Colum Cronin tweets:
Just a tree consuming a bench on the grounds of Kings Inns on Constitution Hill in Dublin.
Author Archives: Chompsky
‘Wonderfurryland’ by Malaysian illustrator and cat lover Kamwei Fong – not just a portrait of cats in various emotional and physical states but a gruelling exercise in rendering fur density, the detailing of which took the artist a month to complete.
Dan!
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised c1882 photo featuring The “Liberator” Daniel O’Connell statue on Sackville Street (now O’Connell Street) . On August 6th, 1775 he was born in Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry…
Derrynane House, Iveragh Peninsula, Co. Kerry (the ancestral home of Daniel O’Connell)
Bernard Dooley responds:
I was here yesterday!. What a beautiful house, gardens and beach…
Meanwhile…
This is a fabulous area of Kerry as located on the Iveragh peninsula on the Ring of Kerry. Derrynane beach, Caherdaniel (Cathair Dónall). Photo by Florian Walsh pic.twitter.com/WBt1it3ako
— Eva Ní Shúilleabháin (@Evanis) August 7, 2020
A thrilling tale of epic mundanity: song by Elliot Mason (from his album ‘Life Is Like A Movie’), animation by Justin Mason.
Hot Wheels
at
Behold: the Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 Coupe – a supercar from the man who designed the original supercar of supercars.
The 653bhp T.50 is powered by a 4.0l Cosworth V12, capable of an ear-splitting 12,500rpm. No wings, splitters, automatic transmission or flappy-paddle gear change – just an old-school H-pattern six speed box heavily reliant on the driver’s left foot.
Only 100 will be made and you won’t get much change from €2.6 million.
S-Express
at
An anachronistic print by British artist and calligrapher Seb Lester featuring an intricate metallic gold letter ’S’ rendered on black paper, comprised of hundreds of symbols including cave paintings, hieroglyphs, emojis and corporate logos from prehistory to modern times via the Dark Ages and Renaissance. Lester tells Colossal:
I have spent two decades studying the most beautiful examples of intricate letterform and ornamental design I can find. This letter ‘S’ is arguably the most intricate letterform that has ever been drawn.
Fair enough.
Available here for €92 in a limited run of 85 62cm² prints.
The Meathook
at
Behold: distorted galaxy NGC 2442 in the Southern constellation of The Flying Fish (Piscis Volans). To wit:
Located about 50 million light-years away, the galaxy’s two spiral arms extending from a pronounced central bar have a hook-like appearance in wide-field images. But this mosaicked close-up, constructed from Hubble Space Telescope and European Southern Observatory data, follows the galaxy’s structure in amazing detail. Obscuring dust lanes, young blue star clusters and reddish star forming regions surround a core of yellowish light from an older population of stars. The sharp image data also reveal more distant background galaxies seen right through NGC 2442’s star clusters and nebulae. The image spans about 75,000 light-years at the estimated distance of NGC 2442.
(Image: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari; Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, European Southern Observatory)
A short by Brazilian animator Chico Jofilsan exploring the myriad of choices presented on the creative journey to find the ‘perfect’ idea.
